PPC Account Manager

Job description

Title: Account Manager

Reports to: Account Director

The Role

We are looking for a passionate PPC professional to join the team as an Account Manager, reporting into an Account Director. You will relish the opportunity to take ownership and enjoy driving a team to hit your client's performance targets.

The key outcomes for the role of Account Manager are:

• Campaign performance is delivered according to campaign strategy
• Campaigns deliver against the account strategy
• Team activities are well defined, responsibilities clearly understood and delivery is on time and to quality
• Opportunities for improvements in campaign and team performance are regularly assessed
• Campaign budgets are optimally managed

Clients receive a professional service, delivered by a passionate, engaged and informed client team:

• Client perceives the Account Manager as the owning the day-to-day management of the account and relationship
• Team has strong rapport with client team members
• Team members are knowledgeable about their client's vertical and wider marketing channels, and are experts in paid search
• All communications, whether written or verbal, are clear, concise and professional

Team members career progression is inline or ahead of expectation

• Team members attain the expected competence required for promotion
• Team members have a clear understanding of the expectations of them, their objectives and the areas for development
• Team members are mentored/feel supported in the development of their skills and experience/in their career
• Team test and innovate, creating new case studies, blogs and awards submissions

Qualifications/skills

• Agency side experience as a PPC Account Manager
• Excellent team management and organisational skills
• A thorough understanding of Google and Bing's search marketing platforms and related technologies
• Understanding of client side analytics packages such as Google Analytics
• Excellent account management and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable working with data to drive insights and recommendations

Package & Benefits

The Company offers a very competitive salary which is dependent on the experience of the person coming into the business. We also offer additional performance related bonus, so we can be found above the industry benchmark on pay alone.

In addition to this we offer a flexible benefits package which covers:

• Discounted gym membership and pensions
• Annual season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Fully stocked fridge
• Friday drinks and other social events, at least one a quarter